Norway Travel News

LISA JOHNSON Special to the Sheaf If it weren't for the rocky, Mars-like arctic landscape in the background, you might mistake video of an experimental rocket being launched at the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway for footage of a spacecraft blasting out of Cape Canaveral.

NORWAY was a critical market in Europe that would help SA diversify its trade away from its traditional dependence on European Union countries and towards the Balkan states and Russia, Trade and Investment SA chief operating officer Riaan le Roux said yesterday.

OSLO a ' Norway's Foreign Ministry says it has lodged a formal complaint with Iran after authorities there confiscated human rights activist Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal.

President Barack Obama has revealed he will travel to Copenhagen for the UN climate change conference next month.

Growing up in the States, I always dreamed of visiting the land of the Fjords-Norway. The photos in books and magazines enchanted me.

The Philippine and Norwegian governments will forge a bilateral agreement soon to lift the ban on au pair deployment to Norway.

Two University of Saskatchewan students launched a rocket 10 kilometres into the sky over Norway last week in a test-run for a permanent international research collaboration.

It's easy to picture: a college student sitting at home on the couch or in their dorm bored out of their mind, searching the Web for any kind of entertainment, whether it be watching random Youtube videos late at night, or Facebook-stalking your classmates.

When I'm in Norway, I'm always amazed at how clear it is that I am with "my people." Three of my grandparents left hard times in Norway for hard times - with promise - in the United States.

A photo of the winner of Miss Landmine Cambodia, Miss Battambang Dos Sopheap, is presented in Oslo on Saturday.

US networking giant Cisco said on Monday it had raised its bid for Norwegian video-conference company Tandberg from 3.0 billion dollars to 3.4 billion dollars.

The roadshows were held in Oslo, Copenhagen, and Helsinki. KOCHI: A delegation from Kerala is on tour in Scandinavia with the twin objectives of promoting Kerala as a preferred holiday destination and to increase bilateral trade.

A Norwegian newspaper said on Thursday that Norwegian King Harald and Queen Sonja were not expected to meet the increasingly frail former South African president Nelson Mandela during a state visit to South Africa later this month.

A twelve-day international festival featuring works of legendary Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen begins today at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the city.

Wyonne Maack Long, a 1960 graduate of Fergus Falls High School, has been working and living in Norway since about 1988.

The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and wide-spread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater that previously recognized and even extends to remote alpine lakes, according to a study published Nov.

Photographer Stephanie Haas of Stratham is spending one year in Norway on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Scientist Laura Steger is sampling Sandvotni Lake in southwestern Norway. This lake receives elevated inputs of atmospheric N deposition due to transport of polluted air masses... The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and wide-spread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater that previously recognized and ...

Juan de la Cruz may be proud of the "bayanihan" spirit, but the recently concluded "Bayanihan sa Bayan ni Juan" concert held in Oslo to raise funds for Typhoon Ondoy victims in the Philippines is proof that Pinoys have no exclusive claim to it.

Norwegian singjay Nico D and his Jamaican crew Junior 'Mangaroo' Crawford, publicist Sean 'Kontractor' Edwards and Prince Jahved at the North Street offices of The Gleaner Company, recently.